Re: Files with non-ASCII names inaccessible after xfs_repair

Michael Weissenbacher
2014-01-16T20:56:00Z

Hi!
>
> The utf-8 patches add a "is this valid utf-8" check to all the
> operations that care. We could probably do that for the ASCII-CI
> stuff if you can define what ASCII means....
>
That's easy actually, since ASCII is a 7-bit code it can only contain
char values between 0-127 or in other words the highest bit must not be
set in any char. But probably this strict check could break other stuff.

cheers,
Michael